not just strangers that you never met before. >> chick-fil-a hire yasir moore. is next. the death of an american aid worker in isis custody is confirmed. president obama readies his pitch to congress for the use of force and the white house and state department spin to create something the president said in an interview. good evening. president obama says american aide worker kayla mueller epitomized all that is good in our world and he's vowing to bring her isis captors to justice. we received confirmation today

that mueller has died, although we do not know the circumstances. it comes as the president gets ready to involve congress in the fight against the self-declared islamic state. jennifer griffin is at the pentagon with renewed contributions by the contribution from the united arab emirates. we begin with chief white house correspondent, ed henry and one more big reason tonight for the president to go after isis. >> good evening. p president just did an interview with buzz feed in which he said that not paying ransom for american hostages is about as tough as anything he does. he also confirmed he tried and failed to rescue kayla mueller and other hostages last summer, contending he tried everything he could to try and save her. >> despite the grim revelation that kayla mueller became the fourth american hostage killed by isis since last summer her family tried to focus on the positive, releasing a final

letter in which mueller movingly wrote she leaned on god in the most desperate hours and had quote, a lot of fight left inside of me. >> the world wants to be more like kayla and if that is her legacy and the footprint she leaves on the world, then that is a wonderful thing. >> yet, josh earnest today strongly defended president obama's comments to fox.com, suggesting the media has overhyped the isis threat. the spokesman doubling down on the president's claim that climate change is a bigger threat to americans than terror. >> the point the president is making is that there are many more people on an annual basis who have to confront the impact the direct impact on their lives of climate change. or on the spread of a disease than on terrorism. >> earnest also defended the president's claim that -- randomly shot at a market.

the press secretary claiming at one point, this was a dispute over where the adverb randomly was placed in the president's sentence. >> these individuals were not targeted by name. >> the point was that people were targeted by their religion, though jen sacky stated not all the victims at the market were jewish, when all four were. >> i believe if i remember the victims specifically, they were not all victims of one background or nationality. >> pressed on whether it was an antijewish attack, she would not comment, even though on january 11st, the jerusalem post quoted -- targeted jews. another official declaring at the time quote we condemn in the strongest terms yesterday's cowardly assault against the innocent people in the kosher supermarket. the president said the opposite in the interview. >> he said i'm sort of like a big city mayor. is that the president trying to

down play the threat? >> the president devotes significant periods of his day on a regular basis to confronting the threat that is pose ed posed by isil, by al qaeda affiliates and other organizations around the globe that seek to do harm to the american people. >> despite those efforts isis has now spread to afghanistan, even though john campbell said afghan security forces wouldn't let that happen. yet forces confirmed today a taliban commander had become a recruiter for isis in afghanistan before being killed monday by an american drone strike. another reason why republicans today said they'll dig into the details of the president's new authorization for the use of military force against isis. >> for the past six years, the administration's consistent dithering has made the world less, not more safe. it is high time that the president and his team

articulate a clear and coherent strategy. >> meanwhile, the administration closed its embassy in yemen after the president claimed that country was an example of the counterterrorism policies working and being a success. meanwhile, he's -- motivated by antisemitism and the president did not mean to suggest otherwise. >> ed henry, thanks. as ed just mentioned, president obama tells buzz feed in an interview that just posted moments ago that there was an attempt to rescue kayla mueller last year. >> we devoted enormous resources and always devote enormous resources to freeing captives or hostages anywhere in the world. and you know i deploy eded -- operation at significant risk to rescue not only her but the other individuals that had been

held and probably missed them by a day or two precisely because we had that commit m. >> chief intelligence correspondent catherine haernlg is on assignment in guantanamo bay, cuba. last fall, u.s. officials asked her to hold reporting on mueller's captivity because of ongoing efforts to secure her release. what can you tell us tonight? >> well our source -- had a direct knowledge of the efforts to secure the release of the western hostages in syria and tonight, we can report new details about kayla mueller's kidnapping. in august of 2014, she was travel traveling with a syrian, who she described to kleebs as her boyfriend at the time. they were traveling in a vehicle just across the border into syria when their vehicle was force forced off the road.

this information suggested to our contact specifically that kayla mueller was targeted because she was an american citizen. the syrian was released by isis shortly there after and there was some concern he may have been bait or a plant to lure kayla, but he then went back to isis and tried to secure her release, but to no avail and the suspicion surrounding him was discards. the western hostages were often held in groups and moved only between three cities in syria, between september of 2013 and may of 2014. including aleppo, an industrial area, as well as syria and that the hostages were in such proximity at that time that kayla was able to get a communication to the western hostages inchts hostages, including james foley that she was not being mistreated. >> you just heard the president talk about that failed effort to try to get another hostage there.

it just came down to intelligence and operating fast enough on that intelligence. >> the information was contained, specific and perishable intelligence by late may, just six to seven weeks before the administration signed off on that rescue attempt. and specific information about a location including a building and at that time the western hostages were being held together and this is really seen by our contacts as the last best chance to rescue those americans. o. >> on a win day guantanamo bay. thank you. many believe the success or failure of the isis fight will come down to the participation of america's arab partners. tonight, word of progress on that point while much confusion about another. national security correspondent

jennifer griffin, is is at the pentagon. >> a key arab ally joined against isis. today, those fighter jets returned from flying their first mission over syria since december. the pentagon and others pushed back on the idea that the u.s. was coordinating the air war against isis with syria's president. >> let me try to be real clear here. we are not communicating our coordinating our military operations with the assad regime. we're not doing it directly, not doing it indirectly. >> we warned syria not to engage u.s. aircraft. we did not request the regime's position. >> but in an interview with the bbc, president assad said he receives information about the u.s.-led air strikes quote that's through third party iraq and other countries, which illicited an angry response from the white house. >> what was made clear in that

communication is that the it's a responsible thety of the syrian government to put it blunt lyly, stay out of the way. >> jordan deployed troops on the border with iraq, a show of force on top of the 56 air strikes that jordanian officials announced they carried out as retribution for their pilot being burned alive. about the slow pace of the u.s.-led coalition strikes until now. >> we have been flying since august 8th a gla shl rate. we fly an average, between seven to ten a day. >> the jordanians received their target set from a three-star u.s. general. >> let me explain how it works. number one it is all coordinated. so, regardless of jordan is flying a shortage it was a coordinated effort. after three days of air strikes, they have returned to flying a handful of strikes a day. the u.s. has carried out 92% of

the 1,000 air strikes over syria since august. >> thank you. up next all is not well on planet hillary. inside what is expected to become the clinton campaign. our affiliates around the country are covering tonight. fox 25 in boston where school officials are trying to fig your out how to make up all the lost classroom time because of the record snowfall. the head of the teacher's union tells the boston herald members would have to work weather they work holidays or vacations or go beyond the normal end date of june 30th. a man linked to abductions of two virginia college students is now charged with murder. he faces a first degree charge -- matthew was said to be linked but not charged in the death of 20-year-old morgan harrington in 2009. this is a live look at new york.

the big story there tonight, a report of a criminal indictment against a rookie police officer who fired into a darkened stairwell at a brooklyn public housing complex, accidentally killing a man who had been waiting for an elevator. that's a live look outside the beltway. we'll be right back.

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bemind looks like from a presidential campaign context. >> you have hillary waiting out in the wings while her couriers come out. what it leads to is end fighting and a lot of self-advancement and that's not the way to have a strong campaign coming out of the gates for hillary. >> they say the drama isn't a shocker. >> this is the typical thing that happens in politic. sometimes, you get egos involved, sometimes, jealousies. sometimes, there are miscommunications and so, they had this falling out. >> and the postmortem on the 2008 clinton campaign revealed staff end fighting and a clash of personalities while her advisers struggled with carrying out strategies. >> a lot of lessons have been learned. frankly, if there's pet thetyness or end fighting going forward, i would expect those kind of people to be jetting pretty quickly from the campaign. >> although the fear for many democrats if clinton sails to the nomination untested, there could be costly errors during

the general election. steven law says that's a legitimate concern. sfwl she's politically out of shape. making many of the same mistakes she made in 2008 and while her couriers jockey for importance and control, you've got controls out there tackling real issues, putting out important policies that solve the problems that middle class americans face and i think that's a good contrast that we're happy to have right now. >> while this fight was about fund raising without a strong change of command, there could be battles over turf, policy direction. if they don't have to battle with other candidates during the primaries, the story could be them turningen each other. >> and it's just february. scott walk erer is is the first of the likely 2016 presidential candidates to open an office in iowa. walker leads gop con tnd tenders in the state so far. the des moines reg stair states two draft movement, one for ben carson and one for liaisonelizabeth

warn have set up shob in iowa. jeb bush is taking on one of the political elephants in the room, education. and his support for the common core standards. here is james rosen. >> we should have this be ultimately a customized learning experience all across this country, where the social commitment is made to parents and on behalf of their children and not so much to protect government-run unionized politicized monopolies. >> across 40 minutes of wonky discussion at the foundation for florida's future jeb bush never uttered the words common core the controversial standards for math and english language adopted in 43 states and a common complaint about many core conservatives who cite bush's support as a reason to oppose his bid for the nomination. bobby jindal and other potential

candidate never uttered the word jeb bush on monday but jindal left no doubt with how he sees the arithmetic of the battle. >> if republican voters want to vote for a candidate that supports common core, i suspect they'll have that option. >> asked today if common core will hurt him in iowa -- he reaffirmed his opposition to federal control. >> i was a governor of a state where i got to chance to implement the most meaningful reforms in the country. >> he also released a batch of e-mails from early in his tenure. one of his goals he wrote to have fewer government employees. labor has huge potential to be reduce reduced, possibly in half. he cut the total workforce by 2%. when a voter wrote it would have been nice if you had shown back bean. he wrote i think my actions have defied your somewhat unkind

government. power to the people, the short little people, of course. elsewhere, i am learning to show more self-restraint, so as to not restrict a free flow of thinking that could yield a better decision. i would say i have a long way to go on this. the e-mails are part of an e book he will release this year, responding to complaints that the e-mails included some of the voter's private data. >> thank you. still ahead, you can do the crime and not do the time in washington state. we'll tell you why. first, president obama says climate change is more dangerous than terrorism. but now, a new report stating that scientists may have been cook cooking the books.

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axelrod says candidate obama lied about his support for gay marriage in order to get elected. he makes the charge in a new book. that have inspired the president's flip-flops on the issue. meanwhile, more judges are issues marriage licenses for gay couples in alabama. the supreme court gave the green light yesterday but many judges held off because of an order from the state's chief justice. the national academy of sciences says it may be time to test the idea of artificially cooling the earth by injecting dangerous sulphur pollution high into the air to reflect the sun's heat. it's a radical idea many scientists say would do far more harm than good. as ed henry reported, it comes as president obama suggests climate change is more of a danger than terrorism. but there are allegations that at least some of the data upon which the global warming orthodox is based may have been

pardon the pun, cooked. >> the climate change deniers suggest there's still a debate over the science, there is not. >> the reality is a lot of climbtologists believe that the sign is not settled when it comes to how fast the climate is changing and why, which is why a lot of climbtologists have recommended we hold back on the policies to restrict energy and co 2 emissions. >> in recent year, experts and average citizens have been finding that temperature readings had been changed. retired accountant bhoger and self-described historian says he has gone back to original data from around the world and find temperatures have been changed by official sources, the result often being a trend of those who say the planet is warming and that man is is responsible. the national oceanic and atmosphere administration says there's a good explanation for

the changes. quote, to ensure accuracy of the record scientists use peer reviewed methods called hom oxygenization to adjust temperature readings to account for a variety of nonclimate related effects such as location, methods, changes in instrumentation such as they are thermometers and the growth of urban heat islands that grow through time. despite questions, the administration is standing by its assessment that climate issues are equal to threats posed by terrorism and the proliferation of nuclear weapons. >> climate change, global warm ing, whatever anybody preferenced to call it is, is increasingly national security threat. >> climate change presents security. issues for us. >> the pentagon says that climate change poses immediate risks to our national security. we should act like it. >> in the administration's newly

unveiled strategy climate change is called an urgent and dproeing threat. skeptics say that is based on models that have been already proven wrong, as opposed to actual data over the last 15 years. >> thank you. >> the number of job openings stands at its highest level in 14 years. the labor department says the figure rose almost 4% in december to 5 million. stocks were up today the dow gained 139.5 the s&p 500 finished ahead 22. nasdaq picked up 62. apple had a good day. its stock closed over 2$122 a share. it's the first stock in u.s. history to close over 700 billion. white house officials said president obama called russian leader vladimir putin today to talk about the escalated figtding in eastern ukraine and russia's support for the separatists. the president says the cost for that support could rise.

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the german government has created a commission to support jewish life and fight antisem antisemitism. sounds like a good idea, but the committee is is lacking one thing. jews. the eight-person group does not include one jewish individual not a community leader, not a scientist. jewish leaders are not pleased, quote, nobody would even think of creating a conference on hatred of islam without muslims or a round table on the discrimination of women without women. no comments so far from the german interior ministry. two new jersey teenagers came up with a productive way to spend recent know days but it got them in trouble with the cops. their crime, trying to make a little cash clearing neighbor's driveways. the two high school students in bound brook, new jersey, handed out fliers offering up their services. somebody complained. the police intervened. you see, it's technically against the law in their town to

solisit work unless you have a registered business. the police say the boys were poe light and got a verbal warning and the president says he forgives one of his favorite athletes while flubbing the spelling of his last name. david axelrod told the story of getting michael jordan to autograph a bull's poster for the president's birthday but when he presented the gift jordan misspelled barack, using two rs instead of one, a problem i can relate to, but the president says no hard feelings. yesterday, he told espn radio that the six championships he brought home make up for it. last fall michael jordan made headlines for insulting the president's golf game, calling him a hack. the president quoted, he talks trash on the golf course even though he's never played with

me. justice is not only supposed to be blind in washington state it now may be crippled. dan springer tells us these days, you can do the crime and not the time. >> washington state leads the nation in property crime, yet car thieves and home burglarers rarely do any real time. they're floating up a book and release plan to save money, meaning most drug and property felons will never see a cell until convicted, if at all. >> that would be an absolute last resort, but the fact is, we have a capacity challenge and a fan challenge. >> overcrowding and budget shortfalls are plaguing towns in the u.s. and their response has been to go softer in sentencing. california released tens of thousands of criminals re responding to a court order to ease overpopulation. the result, crime went up. >> now they're hurting people. we let them out when they stole a car and now, they steal a car

and kill the driver. >> mike rushford says 20000 more cars were stolen in california and now, there's fallout from prop 47 a voter initiative that passed last november makeing many felonies misdemeanors to cut wak on jail time. in los angeles county, auto theft is up 25%. felonies rose 16%, misdemeanors 20% and homicides are up 18%. sheriffs everywhere are worried. >> if i'm taking somebody and not holding them accountable, what are they doing to do? reoffend and that is a concern that i have is that if wee not holding these people accountable, then we must think it's okay. >> that's not his only problem. he's got a 4-year-old 48 million dollar jail that has yet to house a single inmate because there's not enough money to run it. just another example of a justice system in disarray.

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i'm not yet sure how to -- but i know we're all living in a better world because of her. the world wants to be more like kayla. and if that is her legacy and the footprint that she leaves orrinon the world, then that is a wonderful thing. >> relatives and friends of kayla mueller, the fourth american hostage killed by isis in a rescue attempt. the president talked about that tonight. a rescue attempt had failed in the summer to get her before isis killed her and we just don't know how as of yet. now, there's still reaction to this interview where the

president talked about the attacks in paris. take a listen to today's exchanges. >> it is entirely legitimate for the american people to be deeply concerned when you've got a bunch of violent, vicious zealot zealots who behead people or randomly shoot a bunch of folks in a deli in paris. >> the adverb the president chose was used to indicate that the individuals who were killed in that terrible tragic incident were killed not because of who they were, but because of where they randomly happened to be. >> they weren't killed because they were in a jewish deli though though? >> they were not targeted by name. >> is by religion, were they not? >> there were people other than just jews who were in that deli. >> and it was the same answer at

the state department by the spokesperson there a number of moments of q and a are reporters about that. late in the afternoon came these tweets. first by josh earnest. our view has not changeded. terror attack at paris kosher market was motivated by antisemitism. potus didn't intend to suggest otherwise. we have always been clear that the attack on the kosher store was an antisemitic attack that took the lives of innocent people. back with the panel. let's start there. charles, it was interesting back and forth today. >> if you're going to surrender as the administration did on this idsy, it's irritating to say we've always been clear ta we intended to say it was antisemitic. that's not being clear. they spent the whole day pretending it wasn't, which made them look silly. you hear josh earnest saying

that because they weren't targeted as individuals so it wasn't a hate crime. it wasn't a group crime. that makes the case that it was a hate crime. the idea was for terrorism, for an antisemitic act, not that you have a grievance against the individual, but that you want to attack jews. here's a man who called the tv station in the middle of a hostage incident and said he was there to kill jews. the president of france said it was an agre antisemitic attack. because otherwise, it would have meant admitting that the president is not in fallible and that he left out an adjective and he should have said kosher deli. that's all it took. >> basically they were reacting to this box.com interview. the state department called it antisemitic right after it happened. the reason it's getting a lot of

attention is because you ever the former head of dia saying you have to know the enemy. >> the obama administration's now repeated comments that chalk this up to randomness? that's just amazing to me. it's dangerous for our government leaders to reach such a conclusion and for us to be operating as we make a determination how to proceed next in the war on terror. the denial of antiminority or antisemitic motivations in this case gives me hesitation about whether the president understands the true nature of the threat. >> okay well, he could have backed right into that because the conclusion is the same, is is always the conclusion and it's always the claim that is made about the president, which is he doesn't understand the threat, which is just now allegedly another example of that. to me, it was clear what he was saying was not that they were random in their ethnicity.

it's that those people were not targeted as individuals. i think that's a valid claim. that people got up and went somebody and didn't expect to be the targets of a murder and i think that's what the president meant. i also think the idea that the president doesn't understand the threat of isis is absurd and he has talked plenty about how they target minorities whether it's jews or christians. i think he understands the threat. he understands the threat of terrorism or wouldn't have expanded the drone more, wouldn't have escalated the war in afghanistan. this is somebody who understands the threat. he just may not be responding the way people want him to. >> but you can see those tweets were kind of punting at the end of the day. >> they mishandled it. they should have reiterated they thought, that it was antisemitic, it clearly was, but what the president meant and i think he means that terrorism creates a sense of random violence. you just don't know when it's

going to hit. >> terrorism is random. so in a sense, the attack on the cartoonist was not terrorism. that was an assassination. they went after specific people in a specific place and a specific time. that's not random violence. that's an attack. the president, we can appreciate his affection for the -- because he gets in trouble partly because he is constantly tiptoeing through what he considers a semantic mine field. he doesn't want to say islamic extremism extremism, all kinds of things that just common sense would have you say. so, when you're avoiding the obvious, it gets nerve rack aing. >> the big picture here is an american died. we don't know how she died. kayla mueller. you know, isis is claiming that this jordanian air strike killed her. there's no confirmation of that. but isis clearly was holding her at the time. >> but that claim is

preposterous. she alone died not the guards in the building. there's no evidence she was in the building. it's obviously a story concocted by congenital liars as well as killers to make it seem that the jordanians are responsible. and i want to say one word about terrorism. i don't understand why people define terrorism by randomness. it is not. what defines a terror act is that a point of the violence of the crime is is to make a political statement. it useded to be called the 19th century propaganda. if you believe it's randomness, then the attack on charlie hebdo wasn't a terrorist act. >> that's not what i meant. i think we do all agree though there is a terrorizing is create creating a sense that people don't know when it's going to hit or who it's going to hit. and so, it feels random to people. >> targeted that neighborhood because they were jewish. >> exactly but there's no way

to know that. it could be anywhere. anybody they choose to target. it could be a christian. it could be muslims they target. it is in that sense, we don't know what individuals, we don't know, we didn't know who was going to be in the towers that day. >> everybody agrees. you never know if you're going to be up in the tower. what we're disagreeing about and what the president will not admit is that all of these acts which appeal to hit people randomly, have behind them, the idea that they are honoring honoring allah, they are carrying out an idea of islam. >> americans or zionists, or whatever they call him. >> i do not hear he is segtubjects this is a random, has no rhyme or ran. >> the essence of the term, violent extremeismextremism.

it's to make it sound as if there's extremism anywhere without any purpose, ideology or political mess and that is not what's going on in the world. >> next up, jeb bush fights the common core fight and plenty on planet hillary. ♪ ♪ the bold nissan rogue, with intuitive all-wheel drive. because winter needs a hero. now get 0% financing or up to $1,000 back on the 2015 nissan rogue. nissan. innovation that excites. test test. test test.

having that baseline accountability matters but, beyond that i think it has to be pretty clear that the federal government's role ought to be enhance reform at the local and state level, not to impose it, because that doesn't work. and there should be -- i think there should be prescriptions on what they can't do and shouldn't do. they shouldn't authorize -- they shouldn't coerce people into taking a certain type of test. they shouldn't mandate or require a certain type of

content or curriculum or standards. there should be none of that i mean states ought to be -- that's the traditional place. most of the money is raised at the state and local level. that's where policy in our federal system works the best. >> former florida governor jeb bush talking about education and the controversial issue of common core that may be a problem with him and primaries and caucuses. we are back with the panel. george, what about that explanation right there? >> well, mr. bush is a genuine hero of conservative educational reform voucher system in florida charter schools, quarter of a million people now in charter schools in florida. 70,000 people receiving tax credit scholarships that gets around constitutional objections and wonderful record he has done there the problem on common core is his critics are talking past one another. he thinks people are objecting primarily to the contents of the standards. there is some of that but most people feel, as i do who oppose common core. i don't care if the

standards are written by aristotle, perfected by shakespeare, approved by newton and endorsed by jefferson they are wrong because they are the thin end of an enormous federal wedge that will inevitably cause the standards to cause the textbooks to be be aligned with the exams and you will get a national curriculum which is forbidden by law which will come in by stealth and indirection. mr. bush keeps saying we need to have standards. i think almost -- everyone agrees fine, we will have 50 state standards and we will see which ones are best. that's the beauty of federalism. >> here is someone who agrees with you, louisiana governor bobby jindal also talking education this week. when it comes to moving power away from the federal government and that's obviously the debate today about common core. it makes no sense to me that wield have a top down approach to testing to curriculum, to standards it seems to me that it makes no sense to believe that folks in d.c. know better than

parents, than teachers, than local leaders. now at the beginning when people were opposed to common core it was fashionable to dismiss the opponents as crazy conservative right wing critics. and then you saw more and more teachers criticize common core. >> kirsten? >> this is obviously a problem for him. i have to say. >> for bush, you mean? >> for bush, yes. i think it's one of a few problems that he has. but it seems to be one of the bigger ones, that and immigration. i have to say people are always talking about how much they want to have leaders to stand up for what they believe, even when it's unpopular. and here we have somebody who is i think clearly very staunch republican. he is a good leader. he is somebody who can probably be a great candidate. and the question is whether or not conservative voters are going to be able to say we're willing to sort of give on a few things or we disagree with them. >> charles? >> i don't think there san argument on principle. i think there are two different issues at stake. do you like or believe in

standards and do you like or believe that it ought to be administered and constructed by the federal government? the answer on the first is yes. and the answer on the second is no. now, the hairs is i of -- heresy of bush is that he seems to believe that you can have a federal standard and somehow you keep it neutral, keep it out of the hand of liberals, but once you have got it enforced by the department of education even let's say in a bush administration, perhaps it would be uncorrupted by a liberal ideology, but the minute he leaves office, and the next democrat is in office o we know what happens, the way that the federal government has intruded into higher education, into middle school education all education because once it gets ahold of you, once it has some legislative or financial control it dictates. so i think as a matter of prudence, and i think that's where bush is wrong, leave it out of the hands of the feds because ultimately and inevitably they will corrupt it. >> spend more time on this.

we have plenty of time to talk about hillary clinton. somethin' tells me. >> yes. >> that's it for the panel. stay tuned to see the president's latest message to his critics. kind of like mute buttons equal danger. ...that sound good? not being on this phone call sounds good. it's not muted. was that you jason? it was geoffrey! it was jason. it could've been brenda.

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tomorrow night, don't forget the online show makes a return appearance. you don't want to miss this. if you haven't been there, it's a lot of fun. we all hoped it was not true. but tonight our hearts are broken with confirmation that 26-year-old american aide worker kayla mueller held hostage by isis is dead. not able to determine how or when she died. i don't for one second blame anyone but isis. i know you are right there with me. last friday isis claimed she was killed by jordanian air strike. the white house says there is no evidence to support that claim. her friends and family speaking about the loss of the aide worker who gave her life helping others. >> i'm not yet sure how to live in a world without kayla, but i do know that we are all living in a better world because of her. >> so what more do we know about the death of kayla? pentagon